A new (well sort of new) hottest day ever

Until now, the Hottest Day Ever Recorded was 136.4 degrees F (58 degrees C) recorded in 1922 in the Libyan desert near El Azizia. But — this just in — the World Meteorological Organization has decided that that number is invalid for a number of reasons, including an inexperienced observer and poor comparison to other observation at that site.

So the title of Hottest Day Ever Recorded now belongs to Furnace Creek in Death Valley, Calif., where a temperature of 134 degrees F (56.7 C) was recorded on July 10, 1913.

A couple of other new record-holders were announced as well: A Highest Adjusted Sea Level Pressure (above 750 meters) of 1084.4 HPA (millibars) on Dec. 19, 2001 in Tosontsengel, Mongolia, and a Extreme Wind Gust of 408 kilometers an hour (over 253 mph) during Tropical Cyclone Olivia on April 10, 1996.

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